Setting for jewelry



e. w. DOVER.

SETTING FOR JEWELRY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30. 1919.

1,328, 949, I Patented Jan. 27, 1920.

I iNVENTUE .ATI" DIE? N ELY:

GEORGE WILLIAM DOVER, 0F CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND.

SETTING FOR JEWELRY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 27, 1920.

Application filed June 30, 1919. Serial No. 307,573.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncr. W ILLIAM -Dovan, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cranston, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Settings for Jewelry, of'which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to an improvement in parts of jewelry known as jewelers findings, and more particularly to an improvement in settings for jewelry.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of such settings, whereby a central stone and a series of annular or surrounding stones may be easily and quickly placed in the setting and all of the stones secured in the setting in one operation.

Further objects of my invention are to reduce the cost of manufacturing such settings and to reduce the time and labor to assemble in and secure the stones in the setting.

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a setting for jewelry adapted to hold a central stone and a series of surrounding stones, said setting having details of construction, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and claimed.

Figure 1 is a face view of my improved setting.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the setting taken on line 2, 2 of Fig. 1. I

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the setting taken on line 3, 3 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 42 is a detail transverse sectional view of part of the setting taken on line 4, t of ill of the figures are greatly enlarged to more clearly show my invention.

In the drawing 5 indicates an external metal ring and 6 an internal metal ring driven together to form the setting. The external ring 5 has an outer side 7 terminating in a thin annular lip 8. The internal ring 6 has an inclined face 9 forming a sup port for a central stone, the face 9 terminating in a thin annular lip 10 corresponding to the lip 8, the inner lip 10 being split down to the inclined face 9 into a plurality of stone fastening members 11, 11. The lips 8 and 10 form a trough 12 in the bottom of which is formed a series of depressions, half of which are in the form of a round inverted cone shaped depression 13 for a cut stone and the other half in the form of a round fiat bottomed depression 14 for a half pearl, the depressions 13 and 14 being in alternate positions in the bottom of the trough 12.

The stones are placed in the setting, a central stone in the internal ring 6, stones in the depressions 13, 13 and half pearls in the depressions ll, 14. For a setting having eight depressions 13, 13 and eight depressions 14, 14 the lip 10 is split to form thirtytwo of the stone fastening members 11, 11, one-half of which are used for securing the central stone and the other half for securing the inner edges of the outer row of stones. The setting is now placed in a suitable die, the die closed and the thin lip 8 closed over the edges of the outer row of stones and the fastening members 11, 11 closed alternately over the edges of the outer row of stones and the edge of the central stone, as shown in broken lines in Figs. 2, 3 and 4, thereby securing all of the stones in the setting in one operation.

By this construction a comparatively large central stone and a surrounding row of smaller stones may be quickly and firmly secured in the setting in one operation, and the preferred shape of the setting is round as shown.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new:

1. A. setting for jewelry constructed to hold a central stone and a series of sur rounding stones and having a thin annular outer lip, a thin annular parallel. inner lip having a plurality of stone fastening members, said thin lips forming an annular trough in the bottom of which, in alternate positions, are a series of inverted coneshaped depressions shaped to hold a stone and a series of round flat bottomed depressions shaped to hold a half pearl, whereby a central stone and the series of surrounding alternate stones and half pearls may be secured in the setting.

2. A setting for jewelry comprising an external ring and an internal ring, said external ring having an outer side terminating into a thin annular lip, and the inner ring having an inclined face forming a support for a central stone and terminating into a thin annular parallel lip corresponding to the lip on the outer ringtthe inner lip having an annular trough in the bottom of Which is a s. Of al ernate pressions circular fiat bottomed depressions for half" pearls and inverted cone-shaped depressions for stones, whereby the central stone and the series of surrounding; stones and pearls mityibe. secured. in "the s tting. 1 0

n, testimony whereof, I have signed my n crme to this specification,

GEORGE WILLIAM DOVER. 

